His "I Have A Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington ... city’s sanitation workers in a strike. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January, became federally ...

The NBA legend writes about the importance of protest for social justice in new book, "We All Want to Change the World." ...

In a 2020 article in the Vatican News, following the death of George ... Washington, “has found passionate support from Pope Paul VI to Pope Francis. They have held up Dr. Rev. Martin Luther ...

George Washington, who presently surveys the ... Modern bronze busts of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Winston Churchill sit incongruously on console tables supported by gilded eagles.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day ... rights leader with a speech at an MLK breakfast hosted in Washington by the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network.

The U.S. already celebrates ... recognizes Flag Day as a state holiday. The federal government recognizes 11 annual federal holidays: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents ...

He described one of the books, written by Rev. George Washington Williams in 1880 ... a Bible he took to demonstrations with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse Jackson. Brown said he lent ...

Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day both fall on Jan. 20 this year. Since 1965, federal employees in the Washington, D.C., area are entitled to a holiday on the day a president is ...

After just cutting more than 1,000 grants, the National Endowment for the Humanities is recruiting artists to create 250 statues for President Donald Trump's Garden of Heroes idea in time for the ...

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is free to visit 24 hours a day, but National Park Service rangers are only available to answer questions from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. It can be reached by ...